HP announces iPAQ Glisten for AT&T, and no one cares

good morning bloggers!
its thanksgiving week. my all time favorite holiday. endless amounts of eating not to mention the pumpkin pie and stuffing yum! anyways browsing the google news as use i found this article. enjoy happy holidays!

If this were 2007, we’d be all about HP’s triumphant launch of their latest “WinMo” smartphone. But, seeing as how it’s almost 2010 and Windows Phones are losing market- and mind-share to iPhone and Android hardware, it’s hard to get excited about HP’s new business-class iPAQ Glisten for AT&T (NYSE: T). Still, it’s good to see HP finding it’s way back to the smartphone segment.

HP has announced their iPAQ Glisten as the AT&T production version of the HP K3/Obsidian that we’ve spied in the past. The smartphone sports a 2.5-inch AMOLED touchscreen (QVGA), 3G data, WiFi, GPS and a 3.1-megapixel camera – all powered by Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional. It’s good to see HP’s aging iPAQ brand coming back to market with high-tech features like the AMOLED display and integrated GPS receiver. OLED displays make for some serious color-rich pictures and videos while consuming less power than traditional LCD displays, which is a win-win in our book. Check out our Samsung Behold II hands-on video (in HD) to see for yourself how bright and crisp an AMOLED display can be.

The HP iPAQ Glisten is aimed at the enterprise segment, and will only be available on the AT&T website. Price comes in at $179.99 when purchased with a new 2-year contract.

Learn more about the HP iPAQ Glisten here.

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Droid

My friend just recently go one and he says he loves it i haven't had a chance to see it yet but im sure when i do im going to want to play and explore with it. its funny he had about 5 blackberry just this yr because hes dropped them of got pushed in the pool and then he gets a droid.. hmm im going to have to check this out.

Only a few months ago, the best way to describe Motorola’s mobile-market health was “handset division woes” – seriously… just google it. But with the launch of the Motorola Droid the company – at least on the surface – seems to be flourishing. Om Malik from GigaOM just published word from Mark McKechnie of Broadpoint AmTech suggesting Motorola will have sold 600,000 Motorola Droids by the end of this year.

Motorola also has the CLIQ, their first Android phone which launched on T-Mobile, and that doesn’t seem to be doing too bad either. Combine CLIQ/Dexter sales on T-Mobile, Orange, Telefonica and American Movil (400,000) with those Droid numbers and Motorola will have pushed over a million Android Phones this year alone – with most of them coming in a 2-month period.

Next year is looking even rosier – the same company estimates 10 MILLION Motorola Android Phones will be sold in 2010 and with an average price of $286 – we’re talking about 2.86 billion in sales of Motorola Android Phones alone. Wow… just, wow. Of course these are all estimated guesses guesstimates by industry analysts but still, you’ve got to be impressed. I am kind of curious as to whether those Droid stats include the Motoroa MILESTONE, the European version of the Droid that just launched on O2 Germany. But either way… itDoesn’t really matter, the numbers are pretty darn staggering.

For some reason I highly doubt Motorola is very eager to sell their handset division at this particular moment in time.

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reviews on the new verizon phone.

Article on the new iphone look alike for Verizon.
not really sure on the name so if you guys know please feel free to let me know.. all i know is that Ive been hearing about this and now its finally here.. i attempted to google it but i don't know the exact name! so i didn't really see anything on it.. my sister saw it though on a commercial and she said it was really cool so i cannot wait to see!

Verizon’s Apple- and AT&T-bashing advertisements appear to be swaying public opinion, at least for now.

According to YouGov’s BrandIndex, which measures consumers’ brand perceptions on a daily basis, attitudes toward Verizon Wireless and AT&T have shifted since Verizon launched its Motorola Droid campaign on Oct. 19.

BrandIndex scores can range from 100 to -100, and on Oct. 19, 18 to 34-year olds were asked, “Would you recommend the brand to a friend?” Verizon received a rating of 8.3, while AT&T received a 1.4. A few days later, the carriers were approximately tied around a rating of 10, but from there, customer ratings of Verizon began to soar, while those for AT&T dropped.

Around Nov. 5, AT&T’s overall rating was approximately -8, while Verizon hovered near 28. BrandPoint says it interviews 5,000 people each day, and that its margin of error is plus or minus 2 percent.

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“We measure a bunch of different metrics, and one is buzz. It really tracks ad campaign activity,” Ted Marzilli, managing director of BrandIndex, told eWEEK. Marzilli said measures of buzz tend to move around quite a bit.

“What’s more surprising is to see things like satisfaction and quality move as well,” Marzilli continued. “Those tend to move more slowly. When you see things like quality [ratings] go up or down, those tend to have staying power.”

Verizon’s Oct. 19 ad touted the Motorola Droid as everything the iPhone isn’t — a device with a physical keyboard, with a flash camera, that can run several applications at once and that can be customized with widgets.

Later ads have taken shots at AT&T’s 3G network by comparing its coverage areas to Verizon’s. A new holiday-timed ad shows the iPhone arriving at the Island of Misfit Toys, where the other toys discover that it’s a good fit since — although it can browse the Web and download apps — its barely there coverage map renders its other features moot, the ad implies


AT&T has since filed a suit against Verizon, claiming that the coverage maps are misleading.

According to BrandIndex numbers, AT&T has reason to be upset, as the ads are swaying public opinion.

“The challenge for AT&T is that the commercials have already aired, and they’ve made an impact,” said Marzilli. “I don’t know what AT&T is going to get out of this lawsuit, except to get Verizon to pull the ads. … That may at least be their immediate goal.”

Marzilli added that BrandIndex also measures Attention, which he describes as how tuned-in consumers are to what’s going on with a company in the last two weeks. Verizon and AT&T, both heavy advertisers, so garner a lot of attention, he said.

“This is an interesting period, because with the Droid, Verizon is going head to head against AT&T. And when we see scores start to really diverge, it shows these head-on ads can be quite effective,” Marzilli said. “It’ll be interesting to see how AT&T, or Apple, addresses this in the coming weeks.”


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phone just to tweet???

Computerworld - There's a new gadget out today that will let people Twitter while they're on the go.

The issue is that it's the only thing the device, dubbed TwitterPeek, can do. And that's going to be a problem, according to one analyst.

Gadget-maker Peek unveiled its TwitterPeek mobile device today on Amazon.com. The company is touting the $99 device for people who don't have a smartphone or data plan.

"TwitterPeek will make it easy and affordable for everyone who doesn't have a smartphone to really enjoy Twitter on the go," said "Peekster-in-Chief" Amol Sarva, in a statement. ""Twitter die-hards will appreciate its 'always-on' instant tweet delivery and newbies will finally 'get Twitter' once they have TwitterPeek in hand. Even businesses that Twitter will dig TwitterPeek as a convenient way to stay connected with their customers."

But the gadget market has moved beyond devices that can only do one thing.

Are users going to lay down money for a gadget that can't multi-function as a cell phone, camera, digital organizer, video camera and GPS navigator? Dan Olds, principal analyst with The Gabriel Consulting Group, said he doesn't think so.

"Just what everyone wants, one more device to carry around," Olds said. "In order to get on the TweetPeek bus, customers will have to pony up $99 and, after six months, an additional $7.95 per month. So for the first year, users will be shelling out $146.70 just for the ability to tweet. And only tweet . This thing is just a piece of high-impact plastic that can send and receive great thoughts in 140 character servings. I don't see the point."

While mobility seems to be the next wave for Web 2.0, Olds added that he doesn't think TwitterPeek will be in a position to benefit from it.

"Mobile is certainly going to be an increasingly important part of the advance of Web 2.0, but single-function devices like TweetPeek aren't the route mobile is going to take," said Olds. "I guess people could duct tape this thing to whatever old archaic non-Web browsing cell phone they have and maybe to a cheap digital camera too. That would be handy."

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CANCER CELL PHONE

Long-term users at risk, 13-nation study reveals

Mobile phone use can be linked to four different kinds of cancer, an international survey found.

It showed "a significantly increased risk" of some brain tumours "related to use for a period of 10 years or more".

The World Health Organisation research, which took 10 years and looked at 12,800 people, will issue a health warning to go with its findings.

Dr Siegal Sadetzki, one of the 13-nation team of researchers, said: "Most studies, including ours, show something happening in long-term users. Why shouldn't we take some simple measures to limit exposure just to be on the safe side?"

Dr Elisabeth Cardis - head of the Interphone project research, which will be published in full within two months - said: "I am in agreement with restricting use by children, though I would not go as far as banning mobiles."

A breakdown of the findings shows a rise in the risk of glioma - the most common brain tumour. Israeli studies found heavy users were at least 50 per cent more likely to suffer tumours of the salivary gland.

Alasdair Philips, of campaign group Powerwatch, said: "Primary school children should not have mobile phones, secondary school children should be encouraged to text rather than call, and males should not keep them in a pocket as they drastically affect fertility

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Barnes & Noble expected to unveil e-reader

By MAE ANDERSON (AP) – 21 minutes ago

NEW YORK — Barnes & Noble Inc. Inc. is expected to unveil an electronic-book reader Tuesday to compete with Amazon.com's Kindle in the still-small arena where some see bookselling's future heading.

The New York Times reported that the wireless reader will be called the "Nook" and sell for $259 — the same as the recently reduced Kindle. The newspaper cited an ad to run in its book review section Sunday.

The reader will offer a color touch screen, according to the Times, and there was speculation in blogs that it will let users loan e-books to other people.

Barnes & Noble executives did not return calls for comment Tuesday.

The largest U.S. book store chain is only the latest company to enter the e-reader market, which Kindle has dominated since its 2007 launch. Sony has sold e-readers since 2006 and plans to launch a new version with a touch screen and wireless downloading capability via AT&T in December. Smaller companies IREX Technologies Inc. and Plastic Logic Ltd. also plan to offer e-readers soon.

So far, e-readership is small.

"Only 8 percent of the U.S. adult population bought one e-book in 2008," and most read them on PCs, said Michael Norris, senior analyst at research firm Simba Information. "So it's a device that is extremely important to everyone except 92 percent of American adults."

Still, the niche is growing fast in an industry that is slumping. Forrester Research predicts 3 million e-readers will sell in the U.S. in 2009, and twice as many in 2010.

Sales have been falling for years at Barnes & Noble and other brick-and-mortar booksellers — mainly chief rival Borders Inc., which sells Sony e-readers in some stores — as shoppers turn to online and discount booksellers. The recession also led consumers to slash their spending on discretionary items like books and music.

Barnes & Noble hopes the e-reader and the company's new e-bookstore, launched in July, will boost sales. The e-bookstore, which sells versions of books to read on smart phones and other mobile devices and most personal computers, offers 700,000 books, including the more than half-million offered free by Google Inc. It plans to offer up to 1 million within a year, as well as magazines and newspapers.

Amazon.com meanwhile offers about 350,000 books for the Kindle, and Sony offers about 600,000, including Google's free titles.

When Barnes & Noble launched its e-bookstore, it was to be the exclusive provider of books for a reader from Plastic Logic to be released in 2010. It was not clear Tuesday afternoon whether Plastic Logic makes the e-book soon to be announced.

For Barnes & Noble and Amazon, e-book readers may be customer retention tools more than anything else because owners must buy proprietary versions of books to use the devices. And Barnes & Noble has the advantage that it can feature its e-reader in its stores, said Norris.

"If you buy something from Amazon, you can't touch it first," he said. "Barnes & Noble presumably will have big showcases for these in all of its superstores.... Barnes & Noble, knowing full well that Amazon isn't as big in e-books as it wants people to think, is hoping that the fact they can get consumers to hold a reasonably priced e-book device in their hand ... will target their device to the right people."

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T-Mobile Halts Sale Of Sidekick

I had a sidekick wayy back when haha okay not that long ago but basically almost a yr ago.. on valentines day i dropped it in the toilet and that was the end of that.. it wasn't an lx tho.. i had the slide, which i do admit i didn't like much lol

T-Mobile USA temporarily suspended selling its Sidekick messaging-centric cellphone following an embarrassing loss of customer data.

A T-Mobile spokesman said the company has stopped selling the devices in its stores and online until it resolves a disruption to an online service for the Sidekick, a phone popular with teenagers.

In addition to a free month of data service that T-Mobile has said it plans to extend to affected subscribers, the carrier is "actively discussing" other plans to make amends to those customers.

The move is a blow to the Sidekick line and T-Mobile's relationship with Microsoft Corp., which owns the company that designs Sidekick's software and service.

T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG and the fourth-largest carrier in the U.S., cannot afford the negative press. T-Mobile is struggling with subscriber growth, and there is speculation from analysts that the company is ready to mount an aggressive campaign to win back customers with a cheaper plan and better phones.

The carrier has deflected most of the blame to Microsoft and Danger, which was responsible for handling the personal data and contacts stored on the Web.

Microsoft expressed regret over the lost data and said it would continue working on recovering it.

The Sidekick problems are a black eye for Microsoft that comes shortly after it made a push to rebrand its Windows Mobile phones as "Windows Phones" with the release of a software update. While adding a few new features, the update has drawn mixed reviews and has been criticized as behind rivals like Google Inc.'s Android or Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

Sidekick users are still awaiting an update on the situation, but Microsoft and Danger have warned that the data are likely lost. Sidekick customers have been advised to not remove the batteries on their devices or let them drain completely.

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